- Prof. Shayan Garani is the Chair for the IEEE Data Storage Technical Committee since 2019.
- At the request of the Information theory Society, Prof. P. Vijay Kumar's group created a poster on storage technologies in celebration of the Shannon Centennial Year 2016.
- Prof. Shayan Garani is Vice-Chair (Academics) with the IEEE Data Storage Community. He was also the past Chair for the Photonic Detection group at OSA.